I Pledge Allegiance: A Recommitment to America

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Summary: "The pledge: committed by a socialist" by RexCurry.net
Review: Needs more info, specifically about the original socialist salute to the U.S. flag (it resembled the salute of the monstrous National Socialist German Workers' Party) and that the pledge's author was a socialist who wrote the pledge to promote socialism in the most socialistic institution -government schools. Bellamy was a member of the "Nationalism" movement and a vice president of its socialist auxiliary group, whose members wanted the federal government to nationalize most of the American economy. Bellamy saw government schools as a means to his socialist "Nationalism." Bellamy lived long enough to see a similar salute and a similar philosophy espoused by the National Socialist German Workers'Party. As the only person who collects, exposes and writes about the frightening historical photos of the original socialist salute to the U.S. flag, I find most books on the pledge deficient in that regard. It is amazing that books don't examine the issue of whether the pledge should be dropped entirely, especially for young children in government schools.

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Summary: obvious
Review: obvious but useful
If you want to help your children understand the meaning of the pledge of allegiance, that's the book you need. The pictures are okay, but I would prefer more pictures and less text.
The story of the pledge is missing.